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I sometimes think the simple pause is among the most overlooked yet versatile tools in the public speaking arsenal. Short and silent, it's easy to overlook. Pauses, if chosen and used wisely, can add much to your next speech, talk, or presentation.

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It's the kind of unraveling you experience in a Stephen King book/film: The clown really represents a malevolent presence. And, that's what many of us feel about one of the most famous-and loved-early adopters in I-everything. That is Robert Scoble.

As the cliché goes, power is given and power is taken away. That could happen in A Poof. And that's what the influential Drudge Report is curating could happen to the Clintons. The global media could turn on them, just as it has with other supposed elite brands. Here is what Drudge links to.

At their core, the allegations about Harvey Weinstein and Bill O'Reilly are about the extreme abuse of power. But there are many more subtle ways in which males have leveraged power to gain access to young women. Usually those ways didn't involve sexual harassment or worse.

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"Calculate what you're paid per hour. Not the big monthly retainer number." " That's how a relative threw shade on my glee at landing a whopper of a retainer with a major public relations agency. The relative was, to use the cliche, on the money.

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During Q2 of 2017, 32% of those 65 to 69 and 19% of those 70 to 74 were working, reports the U.S. of Labor. And according to Bloomberg , that percentage of working versus retired will continue to grow. Not that everyone welcomes this gray phenomenon. Perceived Negatively.

In the U.S., the fertility industry has a growing footprint. According to the CDC, 12% of women have used it. And in just one year-2015-the reproductive technologies used produced 73,000 babies. Essentially Unregulated.

A serial killer is in Tampa, Florida. That's what is known. But so many of us can only wrap our minds around that phenomenon through what we have experienced via years of watching television crime shows. For better or worse, that insulates us from reality. Poet T.S.

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Ayhan Uzun joined Nakia Venant and Katelyn Davis in leveraging Facebook Live as their "suicide note." " Uzun was distraught that his daughter hadn't asked his permission to marry. Suicide prevention experts might gain insight from this trend. What's obvious is that those at an emotional flashpoint need to make a statement to others. After all, man is a social creature. They also want to do this in a theatrical way. Drama is in our DNA.

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